Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, matcha/green tea shortbread cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

The cookies are bright green (like the color of spring grass); they smell lovely, but have a bitter edge to them because of the green tea. I love the flavor of green tea powder in baked European-style sweets. Lately, I've been searching for a few recipes and found this one on the internet.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook matcha/green tea shortbread cookies using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES:

1. Prepare For SHORTBREAD:
2. Make ready 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
3. Prepare 1/2 cup powdered sugar
4. Prepare 2 tsp powdered green tea
5. Take 1 tsp cinnamon powder
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
7. Take 1/4 tsp salt
8. Take 2 cups multigrain atta or flour (whole wheat flour or plain flour)
9. Prepare For CHOCOLATE GLAZE:
10. Take 100 gms chopped dark chocolate
11. Get as required Colored sprinkles

They are great plain but even better when dipped in chocolate. I know the cookies themselves are not very healthy (hello, butter!) but it is a great way to get the matcha powder into you if you don't care for tea or smoothies. I used my basic shortbread cookie recipe and added the matcha powder to it. The base recipe is so good I knew these had to turn out.

Instructions to make MATCHA/GREEN TEA SHORTBREAD COOKIES:

1. Add cream butter, sugar, green tea powder (blitz or blend green tea leaves to a coarse powder), cinnamon powder, cardamom powder and salt and beat until fluffy; about 2 minutes with a beater.
2. Stir flour in batches and on low speed until totally incorporated, or better yet by hand or using a spatula, and just mixed; do not over work the mix. - Remove and bring together to form a soft dough, handling it gently. - Divide into 2 and wrap in plastic wrap; chill in refrigerator for at least 15 minutes to half an hour.
3. Once the dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. - Lightly grease a baking pan and keep aside. - Take out one dough ball and roll in between 2 parchment sheets with a rolling pin to about ¼” thickness. - Cut out heart shapes with a heart shaped cookie cutter.
4. Gently remove the cutout cookies, and place on greased sheet. Collect the leftover dough and form a ball again; chill again if necessary. - Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly golden at the edges. Set on racks to cool.
5. At this stage, enjoy the buttery, chai flavored shortbread or cookies as such or to make them more decadent, dip them in melted chocolate (melt chocolate in microwave or double boiler)halfway and sprinkle colored sprinkles on top of the chocolate and place on parchment-lined pan.
6. Let the chocolate set either in the fridge for quick setting or on the counter. - - Enjoy these crunchy, crispy and healthy eggless heart-shaped cinnamon and cardamom flavored matcha shortbread cookies with family and friends!
7. NOTES: Instead of multigrain flour, you can use all-purpose flour or whole wheat in these cookies. - - Use any kind of spice you love and enjoy these eggless and healthy shortbreads any time! - - If you do not have a heart-shaped cookie cutter, you can use any cutter you have. - - Instead of rolling the dough and cutting them out, you can form the dough into 2 logs, wrap in a plastic wrap and chill at least 4 to 8 hours or even overnight and just before baking, cut into equal slices and bake.

This type of cookies is known as butter cookies. They also go by shortbread cookies or sable cookies. They are unleavened cookies, which means that leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda is not used in the recipe. I've made two shortbread recipes so far — Classic Shortbread Cookies and these Matcha Green Tea Shortbread Cookies — and I am LOVIN' 'EM. They're just so simple and sweet and rich and addicting, I could eat them forevaaa.

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